A group of miners at the Geyser Mine in Silver Cliff (Custer County), Colorado pose near the mill. Some men hold shovels, a pick axe, candles with lanterns, and hammers. They wear overalls, canvas coats and wide, slanting brimmed hats with high...

View of an abandoned one story building in Silver Cliff (Custer County), Colorado. The brick building has an ornamental parapet, a flat roof and inverted pendants. The side of the building has decorative brick coursing. A highway, houses,...

View of Silver Cliff Town Hall, Custer County, Colorado; shows a frame building with arched transoms, belfry, signs: "Custer County Museum," "Silver Cliff Town Hall," "1879," a fire department ladder wagon, and a safe.

The Powell House, one of Silver Cliff's finest hotels, stands in the left background in this view looking toward the town in Custer County, Colorado. Other buildings line the streets of the distant town. A church is in the right background.

View of a clapboard business / residence in Silver Cliff, Custer County, Colorado; includes picket fence and sign: "Sing Kee Laundry," owned by Chinese immigrant Lew Sing Kee from 1885 till his death in 1927.

View of George B. McAulay Hose Company carts in arched Town Hall doorways in Silver Cliff, Custer County, Colorado. United States flags and bunting drape buildings, men and women pose, sign reads: "H. W. Foss Groceries."

View of a miner's competition, in Silver Cliff, Colorado; shows men standing around tools and a funnel in a five-gallon can; a woman with an umbrella watches from the side. A man holding a straw hat is identified as August Paske; others are:...

A miner poses near the hoist of either the Luella or Suella Mine near Silver Cliff, Custer County, Colorado. The machinery includes a fly wheel and cables. "Don't Handle" is painted on the wall and a United States flag hangs on a pole nearby.